Thread: Ivory Repair?

Let's say I could get a 16" tusk for 250. How many scales could I get out of it ? I have a friend that has 3 of them, all legal. 1 was made into a cribbage board.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Let's say I could get a 16" tusk for 250. How many scales could I get out of it ? I have a friend that has 3 of them, all legal. 1 was made into a cribbage board.

Pixelfixed?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Pixelfixed?

oh oh he's got the pop corn out.

I saw some artificial g10 ivory that would make a not so noticeable liner.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Let's say I could get a 16" tusk for 250. How many scales could I get out of it ? I have a friend that has 3 of them, all legal. 1 was made into a cribbage board.

As with all bone and horn, you never know until you start cutting it up.
I would love to have some walrus to play with, had pieces of it but mostly customer supplied (museums).
It's illegal to sell in Sweden so even tho it was State owned museums involved it was a lot of work.

The blade on this is pretty much toasted. I usually save all of them, but this one is just not worth the effort. The whole reason it was on the work bench was to unpin and put a nicer blade into such wonderful scales.
So Walrus is the consensus?

Do any of you think that a simple ca glue repair would last? or is this baby gonna need some tender Gsixgunn, Voidmonster, or Undream lovin?

Check out this thread that Zak posted for something to go with .... http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...t-restore.html

My vote is for sterling silver liners!
You can get silver hard as steel if you like, yes it can be tempered but work hardened by rolling would do.

Originally Posted by Magpie

The blade on this is pretty much toasted. I usually save all of them, but this one is just not worth the effort. The whole reason it was on the work bench was to unpin and put a nicer blade into such wonderful scales.
So Walrus is the consensus?

Do any of you think that a simple ca glue repair would last? or is this baby gonna need some tender Gsixgunn, Voidmonster, or Undream lovin?

Sorry it's taken me a while to get to this. The cold/flu I mentioned in the Elliot restore thread has continued to kick my everloving ass. I'm finally mostly better!

Since it's a fresh break, the fracture planes should be very clean. I'd just evenly spread a gel-formulation CA onto one side and very carefully bring them back together.

With ivory and CA, it's tricky because the glue wants to polymerize in an awful hurry when it's sidled up to something as neat as ivory. The gel formulations give you a tiny bit more literal wiggle room, but not what I'd call a lot. Sometimes I forget this and bond ivory with raw CA. Pretty much every time I do that, I get an un-aligned bond and then I've got to lose material in sanding to get it all evened out.

I think the entire project is toast,cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
trash it and move on.

Nah! Never give up! Set it aside and wait. Something good will come. I am guilty of wanting results. As I let a somewhat failed restoration sit and think about it, a new way forward always comes!
JMO, Tom